It's not semantics. Epistemology matters. Facts matter. Science & evidence matter. They're how we progressed in the modern period.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
PoMo & Peterson approaches which gloss over this & go into stories & subjective beliefs as the source of wisdom & knowledge are post-truth.
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They contribute to the biggest problem PoMo brought us - the undermining of objective knowledge & the drive to search for it via science.
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I can see why you see that as a problem. but as a psychology professor teaching an applied science we don't have full explanatory power yet
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And I do this as a literature student studying narratives &the meaning they have for people. It's interesting &helps us understand ourselves
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
But it is vital not to blur subjective or cultural meaning with objective knowledge especially if we want to defeat postmodernism.
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Subjective meaning is one thing but this is some sort of tangential objective truth. What would you call it?
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism and
Call what? I don't know what a tangential objective truth is.It can be objectively true that an idea which is not true is meaningful/helpful
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Roaming Millenarian Retweeted Brendon J. Brewer
This, and the porcupine and malaria examples if you watched ithttps://twitter.com/brendonbrewer/status/910065998367039489 …
Roaming Millenarian added,
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Replying to @MillenarianWoes @premodernism and
But I'm not suggesting that its never helpful to believe things that aren't true. Just that we can acknowledge them as helpful but not true.
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eg Everybody is Wrong about God looks at why religion is so important & helpful to ppl & how we cld supply same needs w/out false belief.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @premodernism and
Yes it reminded me of that, though I haven't read it yet. Same sort of idea I think
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